Militant Publics in India Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity
Description
Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities.
Keywords
Social ScienceAnthropologyHistoryMiddle EastCultural & SocialSociology of ReligionSociologyAsia
2011Book
Author(s)Arafaat A. Valiani
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9780230112575
LanguageEnglish
